Amendments/Acts
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Teddy's created this to conserve the nation's natural resources.
What is the National Park System?
-Oppression
-Poverty
-War
-Ethnic/Religious Persecutions
These are examples of what?
What are PUSH factors?
Edison perfected the design, but this inventor gets the acknowledgment of creating the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Critics of the Captains of Industry gave them this nickname.
What are robber barons?
This amendment prohibits the consumption of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This was passed in response to the assassination of President Garfield.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This was the Island a majority of immigrants passed through on the West coast.
What is Angel Island in San Francisco, CA?
This was completed in 1869 at the urging of President Grant in Promontory Point, Utah.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Called church going people to rise to challenge of helping their fellow man (Org. like YMCA & Salvation Army)
What is the Social Gospel?
This amendment established tax brackets that people who made more money had to pay a higher tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This was passed in response to unfair railroad practices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This group feared a change in American values, competition for jobs, and radical ideas (socialism, anarchism) that might be introduced from new immigrants.
Who are Nativists?
This act gave the head of household 160 acres of land in the west. You had to promise to never support the confederacy and improve the land in 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This was a statement by Theodore Roosevelt that the United States would use military force to act as an international police power and correct any chronic wrongdoing by any Latin American nation threatening the stability of the region. (Hint: It was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine)
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This amendment established direct democracy, specifically involving senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This set the precedent that the government could break up big businesses.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This banned Chinese immigration for 10 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This process led to Skyscrapers because of an abundance of steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
Alexis de Tocqueville identified 5 values crucial to America's success. This value refers to a society of equals (no classes like lords, kings, etc.)
What is Equalitarianism?
Passed in 1906 this act required labels on all food and drug products that clearly stated the materials in the product. (Hint: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle helped its passage)
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This political party was started by farmers.
What is the Populist Party?
This was passed to e given 160 acres to Native Americans and expect them to become farmers.
What is the Dawes Act?
The economic theory that the government should not interfere in the operation of the free market.
What is Laissez-faire.
Alexis de Tocqueville identified 5 values crucial to America's success. This value emphasized "a government where the people more or less participated in their government."
What is populism or popular sovereignty?